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  • The Story Of Zacchaeus

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 11, 2025
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    Jesus recognised Zacchaeus's repentance as being true by what Zacchaeus did

    The story of Zacchaeus Story: On 12th February 1809, in a one room log cabin with a dirt floor on a farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky, a baby boy was born. When he was only 9 years-old, his mother died. He was a boy with rugged determination. And although he only had less than a year of formal ...read more

  • The Parable Of The Pharisee And The Tax Collector

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 11, 2025
     | 141 views

    In the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector why did the Tax Collector and not the Pharisee go home justified

    Story: Leonardo da Vinci took seven years to paint his famous picture the "Last Supper". He used living people to depict the figures representing the Twelve Apostles and Christ. He started the fresco with Jesus Christ himself. It is reputed that he viewed hundreds and hundreds of men ...read more

  • Persistent Prayer

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 11, 2025
     | 1,289 views

    Richard Foster has written a book on prayer with 21 different types of prayer. But I won't preach on all of them this Sunday

    Luke 18:1-8 – Persistence in Prayer Father, we pray this morning that you will reveal more about the nature of prayer to us. We ask this in Jesus’ Name Amen. Story: A friend of mine, Alun Morris once told a story of a very irreligious man, who he knew in Switzerland. One Sunday he met him ...read more

  • Jesus Heals The 10 Lepers

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 11, 2025
     | 316 views

    Our Gospel reading today speaks of 1. The importance of thanking God for his goodness but it also tells us of 2. The importance of bringing our problems to Jesus and 3. The importance of doing what Jesus tells us

    The Story of the Ten Lepers Story: One day Bill Morris went out hunting in the woods just outside Prince George in British Columbia, Canada. It had been a slow day and he hadn’t found any game to shoot. Suddenly, he heard a noise behind him. He whirled around and saw two ferocious looking ...read more

  • Take Up Your Cross

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 11, 2025
     | 44 views

    Jim Eliot, once famously wrote in his diary on 28th October 1949: “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep, to gain that which he cannot lose” . And Jesus says something similar in this morning's Gospel reading

    Lk 14:25-33 Take up your cross and follow me Jim Eliot, an American missionary who was killed on 8th January 1956 taking the Gospel to the Waodani people in Ecuador - once famously wrote in his diary on 28th October 1949: “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep To gain that which he ...read more

  • God Is Our Refuge And Strength, A Very Present Help In Trouble

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 11, 2025
     | 66 views

    Reflections on Dobbie of Malta, a Christian general under fire for Remembrance Sunday

    Remembrance Sunday God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble (Ps 46:1) Committed Christians over the centuries have paid an important role in our armed forces. They have prayed for their country and they have been leaders in the forefront of battle. One such Christian ...read more

  • What Counts In Your Life

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 9, 2025
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    Jesus tells us that we should strive to enter by the narrow gate in answer to the question Lord are there few who are saved?

    I would like to focus on one verse today 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. I wonder what counts most in our lives? Story: The son of a wealthy man expected to receive a sports car for his graduation. Instead his Dad ...read more

  • Our Place In God's House The Church

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 9, 2025
     | 45 views

    God has called each one of us to have a role in the church and he calls us to carry it out lovingly

    How does serving God become a part of our salvation story? Before you accuse me of being a heretic, I believe that salvation has all been completed once for all upon the Cross And there is nothing for us to do other than we receive Jesus’ gift of salvation. It is a once for all gift we receive ...read more

  • Jesus Hates Hypocrisy

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 9, 2025
     | 104 views

    Jesus took a very firm line in today's Gospel reading about how we shopuld walk the talk

    Jesus hates Hypocrisy Our Gospel reading today shows clearly that Jesus hadn’t read Dale Carnegie’s book How to win friends and influence people Because the way Jesus spoke to the Scribes and Pharisees in this passage was tough and he wasn’t out to make friends that day The setting is a meal. ...read more

  • The Three Harvests Of The Jewish Year

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Oct 3, 2025
     | 89 views

    There were three Harvest Festivals in the Jewish Year. Passover, Pentecost and the Feats of Tabernacles

    Harvest Festival – Swayfield 2025 The reason we celebrate Harvest Festival is because it is a day when we remember and give thanks to God for all He has given us. And as a result of God’s blessings, St. Paul urges us, to be generous to others. Look at what Paul says: 7Each man should give ...read more

  • The Prodigal Son

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Sep 10, 2025
     | 187 views

    There are at least three shocks to the 1st century Jews who heard the Parable. 1. That the Father gave the son his inheritance before his death; 2.That the Father ran to embrace the wayward son and 3. The Father simply forgave the Son

    Story: I have to tell you that, in continental Europe, the Swiss are known as being as parsimonious. In fact they make the Scots look generous - apologies to any Scots listening. At the turn of the 19th Century, the roof of the a little Swiss church was in serious need of repair. So the ...read more

  • Gentle Jesus Meek And And Mild? Really

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Aug 16, 2025
     | 129 views

    Jesus obviously had not read Dale Carnegie's book "How to make friends and influence people" He hated hypocrisy and called it as it was even if it meant offending the Jewish religious hierarchy

    Lk 12:49-56: Gentle Jesus meek and mild? You will probably recall that famous Anglican hymn writer Charles Wesley’s hymn that start with the words “Gentle Jesus meek and mild” I have a great respect for John and Charles Wesley but I would have to say You have to be kidding - as we see in the ...read more

  • The Mountaineer's Psalm

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jul 5, 2025
     | 117 views

    Where do we look for solace in times of grief or hardship. And with whom do we share our joy when God blesses us.

    Introduction Thank you for inviting me to take your festival service today (in Skillington - the church where Revd Charles Hudson was vicar from 1859 to 1865) My interest comes from a former vicar here - Revd Charles Hudson (4th October 1828-14 July 1865). Charles was born in Park Street in ...read more

  • The Parable Of Dives And Lazarus

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jun 16, 2025
     | 694 views

    What we do in this life determines where we will spend eternity

    Kirby Underwood/Bitchfield 22-06-2025 Lk 16:19-31 Dives and Lazarus Story: A little girl was standing outside her Sunday School classroom when the pastor - a liberal theologian - noticed she was holding a big storybook entitled, “Jonah and the Whale.” The pastor wanted to have some fun with ...read more

  • Nicodemus Visits Jesus By Night

    Contributed by Revd. Martin Dale on Jun 14, 2025
     | 306 views

    Why did Nicodemus visit Jesus by night and why did Jesus throw him an intellectual hand grenade

    John 3:13-17: You must be born again A report in the newspaper CoventryLive on 19th Dec 2020 ran this article Che Williams was using his magnetic fishing rod in an attempt to find an old rod he had once lost in that area of the river. Instead, he ended up pulling up a hand grenade. He pulled ...read more